retbull

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by retbull 9y ago
IT fixes peoples computers. Software Developers don't do that. We aren't Network Admins, we don't know how to set up or fix AD and we don't manage hardware. IT is a different field. I write software to process data and m
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by retbull 9y ago
That is how I started with Java. I mean I started 5 years ago but I quickly learned other ways by simply running into intractable problems when you try to work that way. Modern programs end up so complicated that having hundreds of lines of
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by retbull 9y ago
I have brought additional value to a company and had them just tell me no. No they were not going to give me a raise. I had to jump ship to get a raise. You're stance is nice from an ideal CEO perspective but it never works.
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by retbull 9y ago
Only one question has ever been relevant for me. It was about map reduce for locations and the job was using map reduce on location data...
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by retbull 9y ago
My team counts new devs and juniors as 1/2 person from a point perspective when we are doing planning. Juniors usually get this sand bag until we start beating our sprint goals again.
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by retbull 9y ago
How would start ups compete well with those salaries?
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by retbull 9y ago
I feel like unless the PRC is really honest and puts secure encryption on everything with no backdoors they are going to have a fiasco as bad or worse than the CIA leaks. People will find the back door and simply hack/ransom all of the
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Ask HN: How do you respond to a promotion and raise?
1 points by retbull 9y ago|1 comments
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by retbull 10y ago
Dropping prefab factories and buildings into remote locations would be a good use of this.
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by retbull 10y ago
12 min down a single road then park just inside city center. I work right next to the lot so I just walk straight over. No traffic. I like it. Bellevue WA I live in Bellevue as well.
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by retbull 10y ago
Holy crap its `deep ceded` not `deep seated`?
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by retbull 10y ago
You switch careers right after you leave a nuclear rocket launcher and infinite ammunition laying around.
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by retbull 10y ago
It is interesting that the people who are losing jobs aren't retraining. What exactly is Trump/Republican party going to do to help with that? Bring back Coal when renewable is cheaper?
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by retbull 10y ago
You could also not use xml. Because spring supports java configuration and the stacktraces are easy to see.
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by retbull 10y ago
Personally I go for the Jboss Spring Hibernate stack with a touch of Oracle thrown in running on Windows Servers.
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by retbull 10y ago
Rotate the column as well.
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by retbull 10y ago
No you wouldn't. /s
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by retbull 10y ago
Wow you took that out of context.
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by retbull 10y ago
Inside the frame would still work just fine if you used the frame as the antenna and if they want to get it out they have to destroy the bike so they're out a any money they were intending to make anyway.
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How does HN deal with programmer's block?
2 points by retbull 10y ago|4 comments
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by retbull 10y ago
Isn't it Hiro?
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by retbull 10y ago
Yeah happened to me. I had a low paying job for Seattle and decided to ask for a raise after I fixed a couple of seriously expensive bugs in our S3 management scheme. They told me that I would only get a raise if I had another offer. I said
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by retbull 10y ago
Ouch. I hope that things pull through. He is taking so much risk on with the SpaceX program, Solar City, and Tesla. I feel like it is a crazy risky bet which will either pay off very well or leave him totally broke.
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by retbull 10y ago
Took me to gen 11 and I only lost 1 car after that they all completed.
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Good Code Reviews(dev9.com)
1 points by retbull 10y ago|0 comments
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by retbull 10y ago
It isn't like that doesn't happen here in the US. That sounds like part bureaucratic problem and part difficulty of diagnosis. I know plenty of people who ended up in similar situations or got the wrong diagnosis for years despite
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by retbull 10y ago
No I don't think that the joke went over very well.
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by retbull 10y ago
Elon needs his space fortress to complete his evil master plan.
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by retbull 10y ago
I've been noticing more and more that I code around the stories rather than following the best practices from the beginning. When I am adding a DB connection and we don't have liquibase or fliway in place I can't add it becau
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by retbull 10y ago
I ran across a bug in the JDK when I was an intern and spent 2 weeks documenting and demonstrating that it was in fact a bug in Java not in my code. :D funniest thing was I got to pull an I told you so on my professor who claimed we would N

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